[calessian]

See, having reasonable typed exceptions is perfectly acceptable, but that's rarely been the reality I encountered. About every method in our code base has the same 3 checked exceptions in the declaration, and none of them are handled - they're even passed to service clients.

And it's just super clunky, but the devs who came up with it just refuse any suggestions to have expressive exceptions (that's what exceptions messages are for). It's impossible to actually know what could go wrong when calling any method.